Face processing biases in social anxiety: An electrophysiological study

Biological Psychology

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 93-103

  Moser, Jason S ^a   Huppert, Jonathan D ^b   Duval, Elizabeth ^a   Simons, Robert F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Event related potentials; Information processing biases; Response monitoring; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PHOBIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 41249100597     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.01.005     Document Type: Article

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